2 Peter 3:1

WEB

¹This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you

KJV

¹This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

BSB

¹Beloved, this is now my second letter to you. Both of them are reminders to stir you to wholesome thinking

FBV

¹^[+] My friends, this is my second letter to you. In both of them I've tried to stir you up and remind you to think clearly with pure minds.

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Extra References

2 Timothy 1:6

⁶For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

¹²Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth. ¹³I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you, ¹⁴knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. ¹⁵Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

1 Peter 1:22

²²Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Psalms 73:1

¹Surely God ^[+] is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

1 Timothy 5:22

²²Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

Matthew 5:8

⁸Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

1 Peter 1:1-2

¹Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,^[+] to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, ²according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Psalms 24:4

⁴He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

2 Corinthians 13:2

²I have warned previously, and I warn again, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now and to all the rest that if I come again, I will not spare,